John: Hello? Hello?Noah: Uh, hello, uh, is this John Fletcher?John: Yeah, this is him.Noah: Hey, uh, my name's Noah. I understand that you were once living with the Asher family? Uh, is this correct?John: Yeah.Noah: Okay, uh, I'm trying to contact Mary Ashe. Do you have her phone number?John: Well, her number is 256-*audio cuts out* But she doesn't live at her old house anymore.Noah: Okay, uh, what about her cell?John: Yeah, hold on a sec, hold on, hold on.Noah: Alright.John: Yea, that's uh, 845-*Audio cuts out* She hasn't answered her cell in months, so you won't get anyone. Who is this again?Noah: Oh, okay. Uh, um, I'm sorry. Uh, I've been trying to contact you for a while now. Um, I'm Noah Maxwell. Milo was my cousin. Also my par-John: Oh! Okay, oh you're Noah. Yeah. *chuckles*Noah: Huh, wha?John: Yeah, I saw you at the funeral. Milo always talked about you, rest his soul. Yeah, you were one of his old friends. When'd you guys stop talking?Noah: Well I uh, we just sorta drifted apart and I really should have kept in contact with him. I feel terrible about all of it and I- sorry about all the messages I've been leaving on your message machine and-John: Ah, that's fine. I've just been on leave for the holidays. I just haven't been able to get to my phone till now.Noah: *Stumbling on words* If it's alright can I ask you a few questions, if that's okay with you?John: Yeah sure.Noah: I've been very curious about Milo's passing, and uh, were there and suspicious circumstances surrounding his death at all? That you know of?John: I'm not all too sure. I don't know if you know, but I left Mary after he visited you in 2008. To tell you the truth, I don't know much about how he died beside that he OD'd on his pills.Noah: Well do you know anything about it? At all?John: Yeah, I kept in contact after Mary before I lost touch of her. She told me that Milo was not his normal himself like those last couple of weeks. You might already know he was an anti-social fellow. And she said he became more reclusive than usual. You know? And he didn't even want to get to school, he locked himself in his room for hours. He didn't want to eat. Refused food. I thought he was steadily losing it. They didn't take him to the doctor. He made such a fuss. He never wanted to go outside, nothing like that. Milo really became detached from his mom too, and honestly I wouldn't blame him.Noah: Wait, what do you mean? What do you mean you wouldn't blame him?John: Why do you think I left her? Milo wasn't the only one going crazy. I was with her for 5 years. Every so often she'd have these like odd spells where she'd just be paranoid about everything. I thought it was just a lie or a tick of something of hers, but it got more frequent over the years. That's where I thought Milo got his mental issues from. From her. Some hereditary bullshit. You know what I'm talking about. It couldn't of been from Robert. I knew him for years before Mary and I had met up. Yeah, we were pretty good friends. Now he was a sane man.Noah: Alright, I didn't know much about her. I barely even saw her, maybe once or twice. But uh, what do you mean she was paranoid?John: She never told me until I was really with her. She heard voices, locked herself in rooms of the house. You know, she saw people who weren't there. Yeah, she told me about some man named 'Mr. Slim' that was after her. Yeah, he was always there, she always told me. Some wacko bullshit. She came at me with a fucking knife one night, said I was working for him or some shit. But I managed to calm her down before she did anything stupid. God damn, I feared for my life. I had to leave.Noah: Hold on, hold on. What did she say about this man?John: Eh, she didn't say much. I never bothered to ask her about her delusions. *Chuckles* I always remember her mentioning about seeing the guy by her bed at night. It was all in her head. Totally psycho.Noah: Wait, so you're telling me you don't know anything about her current whereabouts? Where she is, where she lives?John: No, the last time I saw her was probably when you did, at the funeral. About a month after that she stopped picking up her phone. I drove over to her house, about two weeks ago, just to check in on her. I'll tell ya, the property was overrun with weeds, house was totally abandoned, car was gone. No idea. Don't know where she went. I actually thought you would know more.Noah: Okay. I've been trying to contact her, for a while now. A few months. Does she have an e-mail, or is there any sort of way I could get in touch with her? It's very important that I do. John: Hey, I've been trying too man. Haven't found a trace of her yet. It's like she just got up and left town. *Creaking noise* Hey, I got a job interview in about 20 minutes so could we wrap this up?Noah: Ah shit, alright. Uh, if you happen to find her, or get any contact info on her; please, please let me know, alright?John: Yeah, alright. Alright, alright. I'll give you a call if anything comes up. I have your number on my phone now so I'll just call you.Noah: Okay, thanks so much Mr. Fletcher. This is, this really means a lot to me. I really appreciate your time.John: Yeah, no problem man.Noah: Okay, I'll talk you you later alright?John: Yeah, bye.Noah: Alright bye, and thanks again.

Agreed. It gives what is happening to these people a personal flair. For narrative reasons, the characters in most Slendy series don't know that the tall, slim, figure following them is known as the Slender Man to the rest of the world. People that don't know what we know are going to come to their own conclusions.

I think nods to other series are effective. For instance, if a few videos into a series they had a little Operator symbol hidden somewhere it'd freak me out. but in T12 it was taking the piss a little...

I've just noticed what it is about TT that annoys me more than whoring and the occasional "I'm Act-Ting" moment.

The coughing. Oh good god the coughing...it sounds so idiotic that I actually just burst out laughing. It would have been less distracting if they just shouted "Cough! Cough! My character is coughing". All it does it highlight the fact that they are (IRL) defiantly perfectly healthy.

I think it's because they're featured so prominently and yet MH hasn't explained the point of them yet. Once MH explains them, I think it'll be fine if other series use them, but it's annoying to use a symbol that's blatantly copying while there's only a made-up explanation for them at this point.

I think it's because they're featured so prominently and yet MH hasn't explained the point of them yet. Once MH explains them, I think it'll be fine if other series use them, but it's annoying to use a symbol that's blatantly copying while there's only a made-up explanation for them at this point.

That's assuming MH ever explains it. A big part of their series is the mystery; there's a good chance that, even at the end, there will still be a lot of unsolved mysteries.

I think it's because they're featured so prominently and yet MH hasn't explained the point of them yet. Once MH explains them, I think it'll be fine if other series use them, but it's annoying to use a symbol that's blatantly copying while there's only a made-up explanation for them at this point.

Why would a Marble Hornets explanation be necessary? I'd be fine if both series had the symbol mean two completely different things.

I think it's because they're featured so prominently and yet MH hasn't explained the point of them yet. Once MH explains them, I think it'll be fine if other series use them, but it's annoying to use a symbol that's blatantly copying while there's only a made-up explanation for them at this point.

Why would a Marble Hornets explanation be necessary? I'd be fine if both series had the symbol mean two completely different things.

MH was the original, it came up with the Operator symbol. So many blogs/vlogs are using it without knowing what it means that it just seems like they're trying to mooch off MH. In my opinion it would be fine if they knew what it was, but nobody knows yet.

I think it's because they're featured so prominently and yet MH hasn't explained the point of them yet. Once MH explains them, I think it'll be fine if other series use them, but it's annoying to use a symbol that's blatantly copying while there's only a made-up explanation for them at this point.

Why would a Marble Hornets explanation be necessary? I'd be fine if both series had the symbol mean two completely different things.

MH was the original, it came up with the Operator symbol. So many blogs/vlogs are using it without knowing what it means that it just seems like they're trying to mooch off MH. In my opinion it would be fine if they knew what it was, but nobody knows yet.

And if MH doesn't tell us, that will just be annoying. ._.

If Marble Hornets can give Slenderman properties that don't appear in the source material, Tribe Twelve can ascribe a symbol whatever meaning it feels like. They're not doing anything different from Hornets.

Ehh...there's a difference. MH is creating entirely new stuff to add to the mythos, TT is mooching off that new stuff.

I'm not saying I don't like TT--in fact, I thought the acting in the Phone Call video was superb, and adding the stuff about Milo's mom having the same problems is great. But I just wonder what will happen if MH reveals what the Operator symbol is and it's completely different from what people thought. Heavy-duty covering up will happen.

Ehh...there's a difference. MH is creating entirely new stuff to add to the mythos, TT is mooching off that new stuff.

Which there's nothing particularly wrong with. I could make the argument that Tribe Twelve is intending to add "entirely new stuff" to the Operator symbol, which would be an equally fair prediction given the mystery behind the emblem. Which would be equal to creating "entirely new stuff" for Slenderman himself.

Just growing different twigs on different branches, but it's essentially the same idea.